About this title: The author focuses on an unimportant man, known only as "ES". As the novel opens this 53-year-old minor functionary in the Hungarian State Railways is attempting to find out why his pension is being reduced. From here, the story moves to the Holocaust and the extermination of European Jews.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780571164219ISBN:0571164218
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780571132935ISBN:0571132936
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Date Published: 27/04/1992
ISBN-13:9780571164219ISBN:0571164218
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Date Published: 07/01/1991
ISBN-13:9780571132935ISBN:0571132936
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780374172879ISBN:0374172870
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Faber
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780571132935ISBN:0571132936
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Faber [, London
Date Published: 1990]
ISBN-13:9780571132935ISBN:0571132936
Description: First U.S. Edition. Translated from Serbo-Croatian by Ralph Manheim. Hardcover, near-new (mark on bottom-edge) in like DJ. ISBN 0571132936. read more
Description: New. Of all Danilo Kis's books, HOURGLASS, the account of the final months in one man's life before he is sent to a concentration camp, is generally considered his masterpiece. "A finely sustained, complex fictional performance. It is full of pain and rag... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Date Published: 1998-01-07
ISBN-13:9780810115132ISBN:0810115131
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780374172879ISBN:0374172870
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 274 pp. Translated from the Serbo-Croatian by Ralph Manheim. A novel of Central Europe in the late 1930's and early 1940's. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Northwestern Univ Pr
Date Published: 1997-12-01
ISBN-13:9780810115132ISBN:0810115131
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780810115132ISBN:0810115131
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